[email protected] wrote: > Yes, you can only visit the Brough at low tide, I don't > know of any one going over by boat, but I think its a case > of too many rocks rather than too many waves. The times at which the Brough is accesible are given on the Orcadian website <www.orcadian.co.uk> - look at the foot of the right hand column, just below the tide times. Today's is: Stromness/Barriers high tide (west): 1013, 2213 Barriers high tide (east): 1233 Brough of Birsay accessible from around 1420 until around 1820 (All times BST) -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> "Do you get virgin wool from ugly sheep?"